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SHELF SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 3, 1919.

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ARVID F. CARLIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

7 SHELF-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 3, 1919. Serial No. 280,263.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARVID F. CARLIN, a citizen of the United States, and residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shelf-Supports, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to shelf supports involving frames with which one or more shelves are detachably connected, and the object of the invention is to provide an improved device of this class which is simple in construction and operation andefflcient in use, and with this and other objects in view the invention consists in a device of the class specified, constructed and operated as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention described and claimed herein is an improvement on that shown and described in a prior patent granted to me November 12, 1918, and numbered 1,284,235, and is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are-designated by suitable reference'characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shelf support indicating two shelves connected with the frame members employed and with part of the construction broken away;

Fig. 2 a plan and sectional view of one corner portion of one of the shelves shown in Fig. 1 and with part of one of the frame members employed in section;

Fig. 3 a partial section on the line 33 of Fig. 2; and,

Fig. 4 a partial section on the line 4-4 0 Fig. 2.

In Fig. 1 of the drawing I have shown at 5 a shelf support made according to my invention, said support involving yoke-shaped side frame members 6 of the same general form and comprising V-shaped head por-' tions 7 having central loops or eyes 8 and depending parallel side arms 9 and 10, each of which are provided with pairs of laterally directed lugs 11, three of which are employed in the construction shown on each of the side arms 910.

In Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing, I have shown two shelves or shelf members 12 and 13 connected with the frame members 6, one with the upper lugs on the arms 910 and the other with the lower lugs of said arms. The shelf members 12 and 13 are preferably stamped from sheet metal and in Figs. 2 to 4 inclusive, I have shown the detail construction of the shelf member 12 which comprises a bottom 14 having raised side and end flange portions 15 and depending and longer side and end flange portions 16 folded to form spaces 17 between side and end flange portions 15 and 16. member are cut out adjacent to the corner portions of the shelf as shown at 18 in Figs. 1, 2 and 4, and the bottom 14 of the shelf adjacent to the cut-out portions at 18 is provided with spring tongue members 19 formed in the bottom 14 by two saw cuts 20 as clearly shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the drawing, and the cut-out portions 18 in the end flange members 15 are provided adjacent to the bottom 14 with enlarged cut-out portions 21, which are of approximately the same transverse width as the spring tongue members 19, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawing.

While I have described the specific construction of the shelf member 12, it will be understood that this construction also applies to the shelf member 13, which is of the same form and construction as the shelf member 12, and in the operation of conecting the shelf members 1213 with the frame members 6, the arms 910 of the frame members 6 are passed downwardly through the cut-out portions 18, in which operation the pairs of lugs 11 depress the spring tongue members 19, as indicated in Fig. 4, and said lugs pass through the enlarged cut-out portions 21 when the spring tongue members are depressed, after which said lugs are raised into the space 17 in the end portions of the shelf members 12-13 as clearly illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawing, in which position the shelves or shelf members 12-13 are supported upon the pairs of lugs. It will be noted that the cutouts at 18 and 21 form approximately T- shaped cut-out portions.

From the foregoing it will be seen that with my improved construction I produce a very simple and yet eflective means of supporting shelf members in connection with the frame member 6, and a construction that can be made at but little cost, and while I have shown a specific form of head construc- Patented Aug. 12, 1919.

The end flange portions 15 of the shelf tion on the frame members 6 as Well as a specific form of shelf members 12l3, it Will be understood that my invention is not limited to any specific form of frame members or shelf members, and various changes in and modifications of the details of construction herein shown and described may be made, Within the scope of the appended claims, Without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

Having fully described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An article of the class described, comprising a plurality of frame members and a plurality of shelf members, the shelf members being each provided With a plurality of cut-out portions and With spring tongue members adjacent to said cut-out portions,

and said frame members being provided with a plurality of lugs, said frame members and the lugs thereon being adapted to be passed through the cut-out portions of the shelf members and to depress said spring tongue members in this operation.

2. An article of the class described comprising a plurality of yoke-shaped frame members, a plurality of shelves adapted to be detachably connected With and supported by said frame members and each of said shelves being composed of a bottom having raised and depending flange portions at the periphery of the bottom, said flange portions being cut-out at intervals to receive the sides of the yoke-shaped frame members and lugs formed on the sides of said frame members and adapted to operate in connection With the flange portions on said shelves to support said shelves in connection with the frame members and the bottom of each of the shelves being provided adjacent to the cut-out portions therein with spring tongue members.

3. An article of the class described comprising a plurality of frame members and a plurality of shelf members, the shelf members being each provided with a plurality of T-shaped cut-out portions and said frame members being provided With a plurality of lugs formed integrally therewith and adapted to support said shelf members, said frame members and the lugs thereof being adapted to be passed through the T-shaped cut-out portions in said shelf members in connecting the same with the frame members, and means on said shelf members for preventing the accidental detachment of the frame members therefrom.

l. An article of the class described comprising a plurality of yoke-shaped frame members, a plurality of shelves adapted to be detachably connected With and supported by said frame members, each of said shelves being composed of a bottom having raised and depending flange portions at the periphery of the bottom, said flange portions being provided at intervals With approximately T-shaped cut-out portions adapted to receive the sides of the yoke-shaped frame members, and lugs formed integrally With the sides of said frame members and adapted to operate in connection with the flange portions of said shelves to support the same in connection With the frame members.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribing Witnesses, this 28th day of February, 1919.

'AR-VID F. OARLIN.

Witnesses:

C. E. MULREANY, H. E. THOMPSON.

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